Incredible India 19; Next Rohini May be Your Daughter

Folks, time now for yet another episode of Incredible India, those only in India stories. * Your child goes to a school in India. But will she come back or will it be her corpse that you see in the evening? Six-year-old Rohini, an UKG student at a private school near Trichy in South India, died after […]

Incredible India 18; Hell with the Girls, I Want a Son

Here comes the 18th instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. This edition of Incredible India will focus on the travails of the female sex. Remember what you read below is merely a microcosm of what women and young girls across the country endure every day. * A father of five girls upset that […]

Incredible India – 16; Deaf, Dumb & Raped

Folks, here’s the latest instalment of Incredible India, those Only in India stories. * Even the deaf and dumb are not spared from sexual assaults in India. Several young deaf and dumb girls were repeatedly raped over several months allegedly by their teachers at a school in Tutu, near Shimla. Here’s an excerpt from the Times […]

Incredible India 15; Beggar Capital of the World

Lo, here comes the 15th instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * Beggar Capital of the World – India’s capital New Delhi has 58,000 beggars, most of them children, according to the Voice of America. * Laddu Explodes in Cow’s Mouth: No kidding, folks. Read this story in Times of India. * SSC […]

Incredible India – 14; Great Indian Hunger-Strike Drama

This edition of Incredible India focuses on the Great Indian Hunger Strike tamasha.  Can anyone please help us resolve this dilemma - Every day in India, some group of idiots launch a hunger strike. Yet India’s population is not going down and more and more Indians increasingly resemble Namitha. 😉 Here are some of the different […]

Krishna – Auto-Rickshaw Driver; Salim – CycleRicksaw Puller?

Dreams die fast for India’s poor. Shafiq Syed, who played Krishna, the adorable chaipau kid in Mira Nair’s 1988 film Salaam Bombay, is now a grownup driving an auto-rickshaw in Bangalore. Apparently, the success of Salaam Bombay did not do much for Shafiq Syed’s prospects in Bollywood, according to a TOI story. Wonder what will […]